cvs commit: src Makefile.inc1

[Peter Jeremy]

On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 11:36:02AM +0000, Mark Murray wrote:
>Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?= writes:
>> It uses Perl directly to compute the numeric mode of a file.  The
>> version in -CURRENT uses a combination of stat(1), bc(1) and shell
>> arithmetic which causes a syntax error in 4.x.
>> 
>> Personally, I think it would be best if stat(1) could gain an option
>> (-m perhaps) that makes it simply print its arguments' modes in octal.
>
>Does 4.x's stat(1) have the "-s" switch? If so:
>
>$ ( eval $(stat -s .profile) ; printf "%o %s\n" ${st_mode} ${st_mode} )
>100644 0100644
>
>Would that be any use?

Not in the absence of stat(1) :-(.  As an alternative, maybe ls(1)
could grow an option to spit out the mode in octal - assuming there
are any spare opton letters left.  The simplest solution would seem
to be to MFC stat(1) to 4.x.  The only other alternative would be a
(messy) awk script to convert the mode letters in 'ls -l' output to
an octal number.

Peter